COURSE PROGRAM
    1. Outline 
      •   Conceptual introduction
      •   Hands-on work
    2. Conceptual introduction
      •   What does ATLAS.ti do?
      •   Qualitative research
      •   Qualitative data analysis
      •   Data-level work in ATLAS.ti
      •   The objects of an analysis project
      •   Analysis tools
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    3. Hands-on work
      •   Day 1
         •   Creating the project
         •   Setting up a project
         •   Data segmentation 
      •   Day 2
         •   Coding
         •   Memo writing
      •   Day 3
         •   Analysis and outputs
         •   Conclusion
                            WHAT ATLAS.ti?
     Software in the computer-assisted qualitative data analysis (CAQDAS 
     category).
     Software that facilitates the qualitative analysis of research data.        
     Software that helps making the analysis process:
               •   Organized
               •   Transparent
               •   Integrated
               •   Grounded in the evidence
     Software that facilitates the triangulation of research data collected through 
     multiple methods of data collection, such as:
               •    Semi-structured/unstructured interviews
               •    Focus groups
               •    Field notes/observations
               •    Archival research/literature reviews
               •    Photo-voice/photo elicitation methods
               •    Ethnographic videos
               •    Twitter/Evernote/reference management software
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                  QUALITATIVE RESEARCH 
                  CHARACTERISTICS
    QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CHARACTERISTICS
    • Natural setting
    • Researcher as key instrument of data collection
    • Multiple methods
    • Complex reasoning through deductive and inductive
    • Focus on participants’ meanings
    • Emergent design
    • Reflexivity
    • Holistic account
       Creswell 2013:45-47
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                 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS: 
                 ANALYTIC STRATEGIES
      ANALYTIC STRATEGIES
      • Sketching ideas                Data analysis in qualitative research consists of 
      • Taking notes                   preparing and organizing the data (i.e., text data 
                                            as in transcripts, or image data as in 
      • Working with words              photographs) for analysis, then reducing the 
                                        data into themes through a process of coding 
      • Identifying codes                  and condensing the codes, and finally 
      • Reducing codes to themes        representing the data in figures, tables, or in 
                                                      discussion.
      • Counting frequency of codes
      • Relating categories                                                                                                 
                                      Creswell 2013:180
      • Relating categories to analytic framework in literature
      • Creating a point of view
      • Displaying the data
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                    DATA LEVEL WORK WITH 
                    ATLAS.ti: A CONVERSATION WITH 
                    THE DATA
                 • Quotations                         • Memos
                                                      • Comme
                                                       nts
                              Segmenting 
                              Segmenting    Writing
                               the data     Writing
                               the data
                             Diagrammin
                             Diagrammin     Coding
                                  g         Coding
                                  g
                                                                   
                 • Networks                           • Codes
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